Contract: Network Implementation Engineer

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months

Location: Hybrid - 2 days on site in London each week - Must be flexible. Some out of hours and weekend work required during the contract

Rate: £375- £395 a day (Deemed Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

Reference: 20481

• Immediate contract (after background check completion) to work on a large Financial Services client to deliver a large Network Implementation project.
• Demonstrable large enterprise/Financial Services experience - this is not a support-led role.
• Strong project delivery skills - planning, preparing and driving network workstreams.
• Ability to guide project managers through logical sequencing of network activity.
• Proactive in pushing other teams (cabling, AV, security, end user) for the information needed to deliver to plan.
• Comfortable producing and following templated, repeatable designs at scale.

Essential:

Strong, hands-on expertise in core routing, switching and wireless within a large enterprise campus environment.

Specifically:

• Cisco Catalyst switching - 6500, 4500 and 9410 platforms.
• Cisco wireless access points across multiple generations - 3800 series through to 9130 series.
• Cisco wireless controllers - 5520, 5508 and 9800 series.
• Cisco Catalyst Centre and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Heavy use of BGP and Layer 3 routing domains in a campus context.

Desirable:

• General awareness of Firewalls in a campus context (deep Firewall engineering is not required).
• Basic multicast configuration - sufficient for use cases such as office screens/digital signage.
• Voice VLAN configuration to switchport level (no end-to-end voice engineering required)
• Load balancing (eg F5) although not a priority for this role.

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